FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Babbage, (born December 26, 1791, London, England-died October 18, 1871, London), English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Babbage, an English polymath, is often thought of as “the man who invented computers.” From 1822 until his death in 1871, he designed three computers, but never actually constructed any of them due to lack of funding.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 21st (twenty-first) century is the current century in the Anno Domini era or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 (MMI) and will end on 31 December 2100 (MMC).

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1828 Babbage moved to 1 Dorset Street, Marylebone, which remained his home till his death in 1871. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1816 and occupied the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge University from 1828 to 1839.

Detailed explanation-5: -Babbage was instrumental in founding the Royal Astronomical Society in 1820, initially known as the Astronomical Society of London. Its original aims were to reduce astronomical calculations to a more standard form, and to circulate data.